lament, n: a passionate expression of grief or sorrow VT102 keyboards were ok, and space cadet keyboards were fun, but if anyone had been nutty enough to sugge

lament, n: a passionate expression of grief or sorrow VT102 keyboards were ok, and space cadet keyboards were fun, but if anyone had been nutty enough to suggest that four bleeping decades later, almost a half century, we'd be focusing on making keys click nicely... I might have pointed out that four decades earlier computers had been hydraulic, that graphical user interfaces looked to become awesome, and asked what disaster they envisioned occurring to so cripple humanity's progress on interface tech. In the before (covid) time, I had extra cameras on my thinkpad, to half-heartedly play with 3D hand tracking, and "which finger pressed the key" events, and "just where on the keycap was the finger", and keyboard as touchpad, and cep complex event processing with rollback to address input tech with diverse latencies, and keyboard-on-screen shallow-3D overlay for heads-up keyboard overlays, and ... Sigh. Having a keyboard you love can be visceral tactile joy, something which repeatedly uplifts your spirit throughout the day. So yay on working towards more people having that experience. But sometimes the discussion has for me the vibe of a snowmobile forum with people discussing nice ways to spend half and hour in the morning chasing down sled reindeer.